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OOHHHH. this is a very good question to ponder, and frankly one i’m not too well equipped to answer. for one: eiji (and ibe) would most likely have grown up following shinto traditions, which are heavily tied to japanese culture and which i definitely don’t know enough about to speak with much certainty as to their impact on him as a character. i can make conjectures, based on what ive read, but i don’t think i can say much definitively!

i WILL say that here is a place where i kind of do have thoughts on ash and shorter! religion in america is Weird and Funky. from wikipedia i can see massachusetts is ~50% catholic, which for ash would In Theory fit that jim’s of irish descent. however idk if jim would care enough about that to take his kids to a catholic church or not, so its possible ash and griff went to protestant services. i doubt they skipped entirely, bc in my experience growing up in a small v christian american town, people Talk if you don’t go to church.

that said. i think bluebeard killed any faith ash may have had. and if any survived that ordeal, dino certainly stamped it out.

which makes that part in ep23 all the more interesting - it’s the one time we see ash ever pray, iirc. and he does it for eiji. i see this at least as less of actual belief in god, and more of desperation: if this will help, ash will beg a faceless figure that’s never saved him before in his life, that let him get hurt over and over and over. this may be flavored by my own strange brand of religious trauma, but i really don’t think i can see ash having any sort of positive relationship with religion - i don’t think it’d be possible for him to reconcile everything he’s had to go through with the idea that there’s a force that COULD have intervened, but DIDNT, for whatever reason. beyond that, i also think that he wouldn’t like the idea of some larger, all powerful being that can control him, or overpower him, or whatever. i don’t think ash trusts authority nearly enough for that to be a positive relationship.